“Yes, I had read about it and I wanted to see how it looked. I thought a globe that size, three feet in diameter, would be fantastic in an ordinary room — Oh!”
“Oh what?”
“I didn’t see it!”
Cramer nodded. “You saw something else instead. By the way, I forgot to ask, did you know her? Had you ever seen her before?”
“You mean — her?”
“Yes. Her name was Cynthia Brown.”
“We had never known her or seen her or heard of her,” the husband declared.
“Had you, Mrs. Carlisle?”
“No.”
“Of course she came as the guest of a Mrs. Orwin; she wasn’t a member of this flower club. Are you a member?”